Every Member Of Ocean's Eleven Ranked

Don Cheadle's cockney accent as Basher Tarr is infamous. So infamous, in fact, that the actor has said he's fine accepting the fan theory that Basher is actually an American doing a bad cockney accent because he thinks it's cool, via UPROXX. But as with many bad things in great comedies, is it really that terrible if it makes us laugh? Basher's accent is undeniably inaccurate, but it's also undeniably funny watching Cheadle wrestle with it, especially for his most outrageous cockney dialogue.

Basher's most memorable lines in the movie come when he accentuates (pun intended) the fact that the audience can barely understand much of what the thieves discuss. It's also fun that there's an entire range of these lines, from the nearly incomprehensible "You want broke, blind, or bedlam?" to the lovely moment where Basher has to translate his rhyming slang for the other members of the heist team.

However, despite what fans may think of Basher's dialect, he's an essential part of the team. Basher is the one who thinks of using an electromagnetic pinch to knock out power in Las Vegas, which is a necessary aspect of the job. After all, without the pinch they would be in, as Basher would say, "Barney."